Britton Hill is the highest hill in Florida. That’s surely not saying much in a state where the tallest elevation reaches 345 feet above sea level — the lowest high-point of any American state. Even Washington, D.C., has a higher...

“Washingtonians are indefatigable,” says David Rubenstein, founder of The Carlyle Group and a major donor to civic and artistic causes in the nation’s capital. Especially when it comes to partying. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and House Minority...

Each U.S. taxpayer would have to pay $1,259 on average to recoup revenue lost to corporations and individuals who use offshore tax havens. ”The United States loses approximately $184 billion in federal and state revenue each year due...

Blackstone Group, KKR & Co. and other publicly traded private equity firms would be forced to go private or pay the corporate income tax under a plan from the top Republican tax writer in Congress. The proposal from Rep. Dave...

Carlyle Group co-founder and Magna Carta owner David Rubenstein, right, and Archivist of the U.S. David Ferriero, unveil the 1297 Magna Carta in its new state-of-the-art encasement at the National Archives in Washington.

Billionaire and Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein showed off one of his prized possessions today: His copy of the Magna Carta from 1297. “For 800 years old, it looks pretty good,” he said. “Imagine how you would look if you...

Sean Eldridge, president of Hudson River Ventures, left, and Chris Hughes, editor-in-chief and publisher of The New Republic and a founder of Facebook Inc., attend the Paris Review Spring Revel gala in New York.

House Democrats have landed one of their top recruits for the 2014 election cycle, investor Sean Eldridge, husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, the owner of the New Republic. He first filed papers with the Federal Election Commission in February and...

There’s nothing to fear in a government shutdown but the fear itself. That’s Sen. Ted Cruz’s message as he presses Republican colleagues to stand firm against an extension of federal spending at month’s end unless it includes a “defunding” of...

President Barack Obama will spend his August vacation in a multimillion-dollar modernist Martha’s Vineyard estate owned by Chicago investment banker and Democratic Party donor David Schulte. The 5,000-square-foot, four-bedroom home sits on nine-and-a-half acres in Chilmark, Massachusetts, and includes an...

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, third-ranking Republican in the chamber, raised $478,000 for his political action committee this year from donors including Blackstone Group LP Chief Executive Officer Stephen Schwarzman. Schwarzman, a billionaire who leads the world’s biggest private...

Updated at 4:45 pm EDT with Clark interview You’ve been to hell and back, fighting the most advanced wars in history. In the process, not only has the array of stars on your shoulders swelled, but so has your Rolodex:...